Product Manager Lead: Autonomy Strategy & Requirements

Who We Are

Nuro is a robotics start-up whose mission is to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. We have an brilliant team of entrepreneurs and engineers, designers, and scientists. We believe AI and robotics are at the cusp of transforming daily life and we are dedicated to building meaningful products with this technology. Join us and play a critical role in our mission.

About the Role

You will lead the product team responsible for defining the major feature requirements & deployment roadmap for entire Autonomy System:

• Remote Assistance / Operation: define Remote Assistance system scope and interface with Autonomy. Design roadmap for increasing levels of independence for Autonomy System.
• New Feature Development: define product requirements and deployment roadmap for major new autonomy features and scopes (eg. nighttime driving, parking lots). Define and build pipelines to measure readiness metrics. Define validation process and drive feature development to onroad deployment.
• Autonomy Difficulty Framework: collaborate with systems to define data-driven set of factors that capture the difficulty of any given scenario. Drive usage across validation, mileage collect, operational deployment, and scope definition.
• Overall Deployment Roadmap: You will be the point of coordination between autonomy development and commercial goals. You will define our overall deployment roadmap and timeline: where we will deploy, with what features, on what timeline.

In addition to driving the overall vision for Nuro’s autonomy strategy, this is a management position. You will be expected to guide the work of an existing team of 4 PMs, and continue to recruit and expand the team over time.

About You

• 4+ years of PM or Engineering / Technical Leadership Experience
• Experience with developing one or more of the following kinds of products:
• Safety-critical systems that require significant testing & validation
• “Hard Tech” products that have significant HW and SW components (Robotics, Aerospace, AR/VR, Computer Vision, IoT)
• Experience with originating and launching net new products 
• Prior management experience is a plus

You must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by your hire date to be eligible to start the role. Proof of vaccination will be required by your start date. Nuro will consider and review accommodation requests based on medical, religious, or other grounds as required by applicable law for qualified candidates.